From “A User’s Guide to CCD Reductions with IRAF” by Philip Massey (iraf’s photometry docs) we read at page 19 §3.8 that there are two useful options to set the reject parameter: > reject parameter = crreject when we know the gain and read noise of our camera > reject parameter = avsigclip where the […]

A previously published procedure for processing DSLR images with IRIS was somehow complicated. Though it may be more accurate since all the necessary steps for processing images are given, the procedure presented here seems to give the same results without making so much trouble! Since we have a bright target and small total exposure times […]

Prepared for the CitizenSky.org ‘s DSLR tutorials (with the help of bikeman and Roger_Pieri). CitizenSky.org is dedicated to the eclipsing binary epsilon Aurigae, but the procedure is more general and can be applied to any star. ~ ~ ~ For easiest use download the last version of IRIS 5.58 (especially for any Linux user because […]